[Tatyana Buzina]

Actually, it is "kaleki," Bezsonov's own spelling. He must have assumed it comes from "cripple." He has drawings of blind singers in some of the volumes.

>>- P. A. Bezsonov's _Kaleki perekhozhie_ [1861-1864] comes to four
>>volumes).
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>Shouldn't it be "kaliki"? From Latin 'shoes', not Russian 'cripple'?
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